It is hard to guess what a Sandstone false antechinus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sandstone false antechinus (Pseudantechinus bilarni) on average weights 23 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Sandstone false antechinus is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Pseudantechinus). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.6 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Sandstone false antechinuss can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 4.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The sandstone false antechinus, Pseudantechinus bilarni, also known as the sandstone pseudantechinus, the sandstone antechinus, the sandstone dibbler, Harney’s antechinus and the Northern dibbler, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial, which has a patchy distribution in Australia’s Northern Territory.
Animals of the same family as a Sandstone false antechinus
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Short-furred dasyure with a weight of 161 grams
- Fat-tailed dunnart with a weight of 16 grams
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Western quoll bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
- Common planigale with a weight of 12 grams
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
- Chestnut dunnart with a weight of 16 grams
- Little red kaluta with a weight of 32 grams
- Bronze quoll with a weight of 896 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sandstone false antechinus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudantechinus bilarni:
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Egyptian tomb bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Balochistan gerbil bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Percival’s spiny mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Woodland vole bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Kultarr bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Neacomys tenuipes bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Sandstone false antechinus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sandstone false antechinus:
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Horsfield’s tarsier with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan water shrew with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Townsend’s mole with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern caenolestid with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian gracile opossum with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-sided opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sandstone false antechinus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Sandstone false antechinus:
- European water vole
- Visayan warty pig
- Wild boar
- Montane wood mouse
- Boehm’s gerbil
- Smith’s vole
- Malayan weasel
- Kloss’s mole
- White-nosed coati
- Plateau pika
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Sandstone false antechinus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Sandstone false antechinus:
- Alpine pika with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Tome’s spiny rat with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- African pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- New Guinean quoll with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Brown antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Little long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Common opossum with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years
- Southern bog lemming with an average maximal age of 2.5 years